Sep 10, 2009

Mashable! Facebook just sent shockwaves through the social web with its announcement that they will be supporting @mentions in status updates. The feature, which Facebook calls tagging, allows you to not only reference friends, but groups, pages, and events.Without any hesitation we will say that this move is a direct attack on its (Read More)

Sep 10, 2009

Twitter Blog At the start, critics often said, "Twitter is fun, but it's not useful." At one point @ev responded dryly with, "Neither is ice cream." Things have come a long way in a short time. We recognized potential early but users and platform developers would demonstrate how much more Twitter could be. Fostering an open and increasi (Read More)

Aug 22, 2009

Wallace Reid's shared items in Google Reader (Read More)

Aug 20, 2009

VentureBeat Twitter had been in talks to acquire FriendFeed before the start-up of ex-Googlers decided to sell the company to Facebook last week.“If that’s where they wanted to end up, that’s the right move for them,” Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said in an interview with VentureBeat, acknowledging that the company approached FriendFee (Read More)

Aug 19, 2009

Mashable! Do you constantly have 99 new notifications, marked with the little red button at the bottom right in your Facebook account? Would you like to only receive important notifications, such as comments from friends, and skip the stuff various applications send you? Read on. This isn’t a new feature, but I’m always amazed at how (Read More)

Aug 19, 2009

Submitted by Jennifer Fisher: You can counteract age-related changes in the brain with a surprisingly simple regimen of activities guaranteed to nurture and fortify your mental musclepower. (Read More)

Aug 09, 2009

Robert Scoble's shared items in Google Reader via April Buchheit on Friendfeed Tweet This!Digg this!Share this on del.icio.usShare this on FacebookPost this to MySpaceStumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUponShare this on RedditAdd this to Google BookmarksBuzz up! . (Read More)

Aug 07, 2009

Submitted by Robdiana from blog: Unless you live under a rock, you have heard that there were massive DDOS attacks that affected Twitter, Facebook and a few other sites. The sites affected had varying degrees of success in staying functional, but Twitter seemed to be the hardest hit. Given that Twitter was having issues for most of the day, many [...]. (Read More)

Aug 04, 2009

ReadWriteWeb It's no secret that Twitter has become a preferred playground for spammers. Hashrocket's TweetBlocker sets out to change this by giving users a simple tool to easily identify spammers in the group of users they are following. TweetBlocker automatically identifies the spammers in your follow list lets you easily unfollow and (Read More)

Jul 28, 2009

Submitted by Misterfine from blog: By Reason Foundation - Free Minds and Free Markets by Radley Balko In response to last week's arrest of Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, who's accused ... (Read More)

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